Enterprise tech giants made less money in the cut-throat server market globally early this year despite moving more units and witnessing modest revenue growth in the Asia Pacific region, according to research firm Gartner. While shipments grew 1.4 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago, worldwide server revenue declined 4.1 percent as Continue Reading

This article describes how to setup a development environment for creation of Plesk extensions. Creation of a new Plesk extension can be started from generating a new stub. To do this log in to a machine with Plesk installation and type the following command: # plesk bin extension –create my-extension Continue Reading

This article describes how to setup a development environment for creation of Plesk extensions. Creation of a new Plesk extension can be started from generating a new stub. To do this log in to a machine with Plesk installation and type the following command: # plesk bin extension –create my-extension Continue Reading

Introduction A long time ago Plesk had one good little feature: when typing the panel address in your browser address bar, if you specified the port (8443), but omitted the encryption method (https), Plesk would redirect you to the address https://<server_hostname>:8443. In version 11.5, we replaced the lighttpd web server Continue Reading

In this post I’ll show how to set up authentication in Dovecot via custom CheckPassword script written in Shell. While this is not generally suitable for any kind of production deployment for performance reasons, employing CheckPassword authentication is great for prototyping custom authentication that cannot be done via other available Continue Reading

Introduction A long time ago Plesk had one good little feature: when typing the panel address in your browser address bar, if you specified the port (8443), but omitted the encryption method (https), Plesk would redirect you to the address https://<server_hostname>:8443. In version 11.5, we replaced the lighttpd web server Continue Reading

In this post I’ll show how to set up authentication in Dovecot via custom CheckPassword script written in Shell. While this is not generally suitable for any kind of production deployment for performance reasons, employing CheckPassword authentication is great for prototyping custom authentication that cannot be done via other available Continue Reading

Introduction From my own experience of VPS usage, I noticed the need for cloud backup storage. The current version of Backup Manager for Parallels Plesk Panel does not support any remote storage except FTP, but I wanted to utilize a cloud storage for that purpose. As a developer, I wanted Continue Reading

Introduction From my own experience of VPS usage, I noticed the need for cloud backup storage. The current version of Backup Manager for Parallels Plesk Panel does not support any remote storage except FTP, but I wanted to utilize a cloud storage for that purpose. As a developer, I wanted Continue Reading